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Originally Posted by cyko
That's maybe the only thing I really hold against the cartoons. Hasbro went so far to make sure most everyone had unique weapons and Joes got the Snow Job "laser rifle" (power cell in the stock?!) and Cobras got the only recently produced German-submachinegun-laser rifle (at least it has a clip, er... power pack).
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Well, back in the 80s you couldn't show real guns on kids' cartoons. In fact, for the most part you still can't now. I was amazed that Batman: The Animated Series got away with it!
I always did think it was strange that the folks behind the show gave everyone Snow Job's rifle, though -- I was thinking maybe it was for simplicity's sake, but all the Autobots and Decepticons on Transformers (also made by Sunbow) had their own individual weapons right out of the gate. I guess they figured using a weapon identified as a laser rifle on its figure's filecard would go over better than giving everyone their individual weapons and having them shoot laser blasts. Can you imagine Flint carrying a laser-firing shotgun?!?
However, in the second season, some of the characters were given their unique weapons. For example, Roadblock has his machine gun (but it fires lasers) and Low-Light has his sniper rifle (but it fires lasers). At least they tried... Anyway, my Joe display is pretty cartoon-oriented these days since the 25th line seems to embrace that aspect of the mythos more than any other. So all my 25th Joes are holding Snow Job rifles (with a few exceptions -- Scarlett has her crossbow, for example).